Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. Words printed in italics are marked with underlines: _italics_. [Illustration: LYDFORD GORGE (_Page 24_)] DARTMOOR Described by Arthur L. Salmon Pictured by E. W. Haslehust BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY _Blackie & Son's "Beautiful" Series_ Beautiful England Bath and Wells Bournemouth and Christchurch Cambridge Canterbury Chester and the Dee The Cornish Riviera Dartmoor Dickens-Land The Dukeries The English Lakes Exeter Folkestone and Dover Hampton Court Hastings and Neighbourhood Hereford and the Wye The Isle of Wight The New Forest Norwich and the Broads Oxford The Peak District Ripon and Harrogate Scarborough Shakespeare-Land Swanage and Neighbourhood The Thames Warwick and Leamington The Heart of Wessex Winchester Windsor Castle York Beautiful Scotland Edinburgh The Shores of Fife Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, and the Trossachs The Scott Country Beautiful Ireland Connaught Leinster Munster Ulster Beautiful Switzerland Chamonix Lausanne and its Environs Lucerne Villars and Champery _Printed and bound in Great Britain_ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Facing Page Lydford Gorge _Frontispiece_ Wistman's Wood 8 Two Bridges 16 Ockery Bridge, near Princetown 20 Clapper Bridge, Postbridge 24 Brent Tor 29 Tavy Cleave 33 Widecombe on the Moor 40 Dartmeet 48 A Moorland Track, the Devil's Bridge 53 Stone Avenue, near Merrivale 56 A Dartmoor Stream 60 [Illustration: DARTMOOR]